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RE: The $TEMP env var
From: |
Conrad T. Pino |
Subject: |
RE: The $TEMP env var |
Date: |
Tue, 6 Apr 2004 13:53:47 -0700 |
I assume you know Windows NT family has system
and user environment variables that can both be
modified.
Some history about Windows defaults:
Windows NT 4.0
1. Does nothing in system environment which can
be a problem for an NT service.
2. Set TEMP & TMP in user environment to the
same value, typically "%SystemDrive%\TEMP" ie.
"C:\TEMP".
Windows 2000:
1. Set TEMP & TMP in system environment to the
same value, typically "%SystemRoot%\TEMP" ie.
"C:\WinNT\TEMP"
2. Set TEMP & TMP in user environment to the
same value, typically
"%UserProfile%\Local Settings\"TEMP" ie.
"C:\Documents and Settings\User\Local Settings\TEMP"
and names are usually munged to 8.3 form.
I don't have Windows XP and you do. Can you say
what the story is there?
Note in Windows NT & 2000 the CVS effective settings
are user values if set else system values, except
for the PATH which has an effective value of both
system and user values concatenated together.
- The $TEMP env var, Derek Robert Price, 2004/04/06
- RE: The $TEMP env var,
Conrad T. Pino <=